Monthly Archives: December 2010

As the Sesquicentennial approaches it is hard for us to wrap our heads around the enormity of the conflict. More than 620,000 soldiers died - 10% of all fighting age males in the North and 30 percent of all the [...]

Perusing W.C.(Jack) Davis's book "A Government of Our Own" I was interested in the chapter that is titled Farewell Montgomery. As you know the Davis family was only in the First White House for a few short months, but Varina made the most of it.Jack [...]

Are you looking for a great New Year's Eve punch? Well, you just may want to try the famous Jefferson Davis punch. I understand that it was invented by Winnie for her father's birthday in his later years. We received [...]

A friend shared that her family used to love Jefferson Davis's favorite chess pie, which is in the family cookbook they called Granny Ward's Chess pie because she is the one who made it the most. But my friend Guin [...]

With the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War at hand I thought you might like a list of the birth dates of famous CSA figures (actually it was on the back of the JD punch recipe).Sept 7 - John Pelham (called [...]

The following is from my childhood friend Richard. I am reprinting it as he wrote it for your information:Richard says "The NY TIMES of the period reported that Davis was captured in women ‘clothes but I would give that report [...]

Civil war buffs and historians who prefer to call that time in American history as the Northern Aggression may be familiar with the Civil War Secret Missions game for Xbox that is growing in popularity. A friend viewed it today on [...]

On December 16, I wrote about an age old controversy, as to whether Jefferson Davis was wearing Varina's dress when he was captured or not, quoting an article by James Swanson in the American Heritage Magazine.A most interesting comment came from [...]

Have you ever thought about how it would have been if Jefferson Davis had appared on YouTube? The other day on YouTube they videoed a choir singing the Hallelujah Chorus in a mall food court somewhere. That was amazing.How much more amazing if they had had the internet in [...]